Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMicrosoft’s AI Patch Surge, Inkling’s Open-Model Bet, and a Reality Check for Agent Benchmarks | UpNext AI – July 16, 2026
Episode 55
A fast catch-up on the day’s biggest AI stories: Microsoft says AI helped surface a record Patch Tuesday haul, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines makes …
1 month, 1 week ago
Compute Hunger, ChatGPT Workflows, and a New Way to Test AI Safety | UpNext AI – July 15, 2026
Episode 54
Today on UpNext AI: a billion-dollar compute deal shows how intense the infrastructure race has become, OpenAI pitches ChatGPT Work for data-science …
1 month, 1 week ago
AI Drug Discovery Meets Quantum Computing, Open Models Under Pressure, and Tool-Using Agent Benchmarks | UpNext AI – July 14, 2026
Episode 53
Today on UpNext AI: a high-upside science story on using AI plus quantum computing to generate new peptides for drug discovery, a sharp practitioner …
1 month, 1 week ago
The First AI Agent Phone, Peer-Review Prompt Injection, and AI Triage Benchmarks | UpNext AI – July 13, 2026
Episode 52
A lighter but still revealing AI news day: we look at Nubia’s claim that it is launching the world’s first AI agent smartphone, a new paper on how hi…
1 month, 1 week ago
OpenAI and Microsoft Recommit, GPT-5.6 Lands, and Google Labels AI Ads | UpNext AI – July 10, 2026
Episode 51
Today on UpNext AI: OpenAI used its GPT-5.6 launch to signal that its models will remain central to Microsoft 365 Copilot, even as questions swirl ab…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Grok 4.5, Open Models at ICML, and Why Deployment Rules Matter | UpNext AI – July 9, 2026
Episode 50
Today on UpNext AI: xAI rolls out Grok 4.5 with a cost-and-efficiency pitch, Nvidia argues open models and open infrastructure are becoming core to m…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Meta’s AI Image Opt-Out, Cross-Chip Inference, and Biomedical Agent Collaboration | UpNext AI – July 8, 2026
Episode 49
A quick catch-up on today’s AI news: Meta changes the default rules for how public Instagram photos can be used in AI image generation, French startu…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Orbit Labs, Fusion Funding, and Medical AI Model Fixes | UpNext AI – July 7, 2026
Episode 48
A catch-up on a lighter but still revealing AI news day: space-based protein research, fusion money tied to AI-era energy demand, a new benchmark for…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Open-Source AI’s Gap Map, ECG Explainability, and Mistral’s Rise | UpNext AI – July 6, 2026
Episode 47
Today on UpNext AI: a new open-source AI "gap map" tries to measure what a public-option AI stack actually looks like, a medical AI paper tests wheth…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Anthropic’s Washington Reset, Custom AI Chips, and the Research-Idea Gap | UpNext AI – July 3, 2026
Episode 46
A quick catch-up on the AI stories shaping infrastructure, policy, and how people work with models. Today: Anthropic gets restrictions lifted with ad…
1 month, 3 weeks ago